Graduate Landscape Architect (2025 Intake)

To be considered for this role, please read the job description carefully. Submit all relevant documents as PDFs, including the application questions at the bottom of the advert.

Launch your career and find your professional home at Ramboll. Be part of a welcoming and engaging environment where you can develop your professional interests and curiosity, making the most of the opportunities ahead.

At Ramboll, we offer a unique work environment. Our culture is built on openness, understanding, and respect, allowing you to shape your role to match your working style, aspirations, and personal life. Our Nordic heritage drives our commitment to improving conditions for people and nature through our projects. As a foundation-owned multinational company, profits are reinvested into the company to support employee development, research, charity, and humanitarian projects. Our commitment to being "The Partner for Sustainable Change" ensures your work makes a meaningful impact on people, communities, and the environment.

Our Early Careers Programme – EarlyCareers@Ramboll

We have designed a training program that will boost your personal, commercial, and technical development to kick-start your career with Ramboll. You will also be paired with a mentor and have access to a clear framework to work towards your professional development.

The Early Careers Challenge is one of the highlights of the graduate training. This is a fun and exciting event where you travel around the UK and work on a design project, gaining insight into the concept of design. You also have opportunities to collaborate and network with peers.

About the Opportunity

As our new Graduate Landscape Architect you will join a team of 16 landscape architects (working across our Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds, and London offices) who design and assess projects across a wide range of sectors including buildings, energy and transport, in the UK and internationally. We provide a positive and supportive learning environment including mentorship for the Landscape Institute Pathway to Chartership.

Your key tasks and responsibilities will be:

• Undertaking research and analysis for design and assessment projects
• Preparation of models, drawings, and reports using a range of software
• Site visits, surveys, and photography
• Attending project meetings and coordination with other specialist disciplines

Your skills and experience

For this role, we believe your starting point is:

• A Masters or Postgraduate degree in a Landscape Institute accredited course
• Experience with a range of IT packages that may include Revit, AutoCAD, Photoshop, InDesign, and GIS
• Numerical competence
• Excellent English communication skills, both oral and written
• A collaborative attitude to working
• Confidence in developing your own networks

We do not expect you to know everything, but you should show curiosity, take responsibility, and strive to deliver high-quality work. Ramboll aims to deliver excellent cross-functional solutions in a professional and well-coordinated manner to our clients. Therefore, you need good communication and collaboration skills.

Benefits you will enjoy:

• Hybrid and flexible working
• 27 days holiday per year + 8 bank holidays
• Professional subscription + support on becoming chartered
• Private medical insurance
• A flexible benefits program including discounted TasteCard, Cycle to Work, gym benefits, and more

Selection Process:

We aim to shortlist applications by the beginning of March and invite successful candidates to an assessment centre at the beginning of April in our Birmingham office (TBC).

Work at the heart of sustainable change with Ramboll in the United Kingdom and Ireland

Ramboll is a global architecture, engineering, and consultancy company. As a foundation-owned company founded in Denmark, Ramboll believes sustainable change should create a thriving world for nature and people. Our history is rooted in a clear vision of responsible action, openness, and curiosity as core values. Ramboll in the United Kingdom and Ireland has a proven track record of sustainable and responsible business and is a top ten engineering and environmental sustainability consultancy in the UK, with more than 1,500 employees across 16 offices. We deliver innovative solutions across Buildings, Transport, Environment & Health, Energy, and Water and Management Consulting. In 2024, Ramboll was included in the Sunday Times’ list of Best Places to Work.

How to apply

Apply online. Attach your CV and Cover Letter as PDFs. In a separate PDF, address the following questions:

• What are the main environmental challenges where you live, why they are important to you, and how you would help solve them? (max. 500 words)
• What are your top 3 locations if you were offered a role with Ramboll? We are aiming to recruit into our Bristol, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Leeds or London offices, but other locations you could consider would also be helpful.

Please note that incomplete applications will not be considered.

Based on the volume of applications received, we reserve the right to close applications early.

We look forward to receiving your application.

Deadline for applications: 14 February 2025

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

Equality, diversity, and inclusion are at the heart of what we do. Ramboll believes diversity is a strength and that different experiences and perspectives are essential to creating truly sustainable societies. We are committed to providing an inclusive and supportive work environment where everyone can flourish and reach their potential. We support a healthy work/life balance and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and characteristics. As a Disability Confident Committed employer, Ramboll ensures opportunities are accessible to candidates with disabilities. Please let us know if there are any changes we could make to the application process to improve accessibility. You can contact us at job.advert.accessibility@ramboll.com with such requests.

Keywords: Buildings, Transport, Energy, Environment & Health, Water and Management Consulting